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rich family?—You the salt of the Earth—You Jordans! You paupers—Ha! Ha! Ha!

(pulls Sadie’s skirt)

Ain’t she still dead, Mum! Ain’t grandma still dead?

(angrily)

Of course she is,

But I thought we was all goin’ to cry!

Cry then, you awful little brat.

[''She slaps his face and he roars loudly; she takes him by the arm and yanks him out of the room, followed by Henry, Emma, Nettie. and Ella—through his roars, they all speak together as they go''.

(to Henry)

One hundred dollars! After all your blowin’.

It ’s you, and that child of your ’n; you turned her against me.

Well, I just won’t spend my hundred dollars for mournin’. I ’ll wear my old black dress!

And me makin’ hats all the rest of my life—just makin’ hats!

[''The front door is heard to shut behind them. Jane, Ben and Judge are alone. Judge stands by stove. Jane is up by window, looking out at the deepening twilight. Ben sits at right''.

Ha! Ha! Ha! “Crow buzzards” mother called us—the last of the Jordans—crow buzzards—and that ’s what we are.